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Fri, 11 December 2020 17:03

Gary
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Registered: August 2008
Location: Indiana

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I've been reading through the Old Testament and noticed how the Northern Kingdom of Israel was given over to Idolatry. Every King did wickedness in the eyes of the Lord. God was displeased with His people.

Even though they seen God move in their behalf it seemed like they would always return to the Idols of the nations surrounding them. Eventually this caused Israel to be carried off to Babylon.

Now today in Christianity we find the Church of Jesus Christ embedded with Idols. I'm speaking of Tammuz, Saturnalia, etc..
I recently told someone about these holidays and they had never heard of this before. But they just passed it off and did not seem interested. Maybe the guy seen it but did not want to hear it. Either way he went on to another subject.

It's interesting to see the responses that people give. I thought why did I think this holiday needed to be avoided. What made me convinced that it was always a pagan celebration?

I honestly don't know, I would tend to think God opened our eyes to understand the origin of Christmas. But it seems it doesn't make any impact when we tell someone.

I wonder sometimes how the Lord looks at all of this. Is it not worth making a big deal about? Not that I go around destroying trees in peoples homes or anything. But just having to deal with it every year telling people why I don't participate. You almost get this feeling like your desecrating something that should be good.

I get the feeling that with all the covid stuff going on this year, that people are going to go all out this christmas. They were putting up trees around the first of November, stores were stocking their shelves in October. The government is already freaking out telling people not to hug anyone. You should of seen the list of dos and don'ts in the local paper.

I'm just thinking out loud here nobody needs to reply. Maybe its my yearly rant about this pagan holiday in the month of December. At least I hope all you guys understand and this isn't looked upon on as oh no it's another yearly Christmas post.

In Him,
Gary

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